Posts Tagged ‘shoes’

Flowers on your feet

August 9th, 2010

It looks like spring fashion is going floral from head to toe. Hooray!


Left: Ipanema from The Warehouse’s Garage range
Right: Pretty also from The Warehouse Garage range

Left: Raska Court at Number 1 shoe warehouse
Right: Verity Fast at Number 1 shoe warehouse

A googlefest on floral shoes will hook you up with loads more images of flowery shoes.

Have you seen any others in your shopping travels? What do you think – is this a trend that’s pretty to the power of 3?

Holy fricking WOW!

September 30th, 2009

As I already wrote about in advance, thanks to the lovely Barbara at the Wellington City Council, Kowhai, Robyn and I got to go to the Montana World of WearableArts Awards. It really did make me go wow, like, a lot. Obviously, it was more about the art than the wearable, but if I go through my experiences of the night in a loose semi-chronological order, I will pull out my notes about making some of it translate to real life, okay? Yes. It’s going to be a long post, so I’ll put it after a jump. » Read more: Holy fricking WOW!

In the news: comfortable heels

October 19th, 2008

This from the NZ Herald:

Tucked away in foot labs at Auckland’s AUT University, researchers are quietly working towards triggering an all-out, all-woman stampede.

Their aim is to find a technology that will end – or at least greatly ease – the pain caused by high heels, suffered by fashion-conscious females worldwide.

Pairing up with comfort-conscious shoe manufacturer Kumfs, the researchers hope their ground-breaking project will unlock the secrets of what really makes a shoe comfortable.

Within 12 months female feet of all shapes and sizes will be required to test-drive a new insert.

Hope there research goes well! Read more here.

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